Re: To Do wiki

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: To Do wiki
Date: 2012-04-10 15:18:19
Message-ID: CAM-w4HO+JyTtZqL0Hx3JC00qELZJqCLNFVe83z8jsVYPbMvH8A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> I think the way we'd speed up COUNT(*) further would be to implement
> materialized views. Then you could define a materialized view on COUNT(*),
> and essentially get a row counter similar to MyISAM. I think it's fair to
> mark this as done.

If only because it comes up so frequently it would be good to have
this noted in the TODO, either under materialized views or as a
pointer to them.

A good materialized views implementation including automatically
determining what delta data to keep sure would be nice to have.

--
greg

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